Top Inventors in Evanston, IL | Patent Leaderboard

Evanston, IL ranks #344 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,988 patents from 1,719 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Evanston, IL include Northwestern University, Colgate-Palmolive, Uop. That works out to 115.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,719 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Tobin J. Marks	Northwestern University	176
2	Bruce Cummings	Colgate-Palmolive	133
3	Christopher P. Nicholas	Uop	130
#4	Claudio Santiago Ribeiro	Motorola	122
#5	John A. Nix	Network-1 Technologies	106
#6	Walter B. Herbst	General Binding	87
#7	Mark Greenwood	Youcopia Products	85
#8	Richard A. Partis	G.D. Searle	79
#9	Alexander Hans Vija	Siemens Medical Solutions Usa	73
#10	Lawrence A. Birnbaum	Narrative Science	72
#11	Michael B. Grimm	Asyst Technologies L.L.C.	64
#12	Andrew J. Souers	Abb Vie	63
#12	Geoffry A. Westphal	W.W. Grainger	63
#14	M. Amin Khan	Aptinyx	61
#15	William A. Carroll	Abbott	58
#16	E. Ann Hallinan	G.D. Searle	53
#17	Michael A. Peshkin	Northwestern University	52
#17	Robert L. Letsinger	Nanosphere	52
#19	Sean Dennis Simpson	Lanzatech New Zealand Limited	51
#19	Jason Green	Nucurrent	51
#21	Keith Alsberg	Steris	50
#22	Scott A. Schoessel	Stokely-Van Camp	47
#22	Peter Horbury	Shanghai Geely Diran Automobile Design Co.	47
#24	William D. Hunt	Deka Products Limited Parternship	46
#25	Kimon Papakos	Tellabs Operations	45
#25	Brian J. Chisholm	Owens-Brockway Glass Container	45
#27	Christopher Butts	Sonos	44
#28	Mark E. Faga	Allstate Insurance	43
#29	Craig Scherer	Brk Brands	41
#30	Jialuo Jack Xuan	Seagate Technology	40
#30	Evan L. Ryan	Benebone	40
#32	SonBinh T. Nguyen	Northwestern University	39
#32	Raymond P. O'Leary	S&C Electric	39
#34	Hermann A. Zinnen	Uop	37
#35	James J. Storhoff	Nanosphere	36
#36	Karl A. Scheidt	Northwestern University	35
#36	Hao Zhang	Northwestern University	35
#38	Jeff Lichtman	Stokely-Van Camp	34
#38	Peter J. Silverman	Intel	34
#38	Gordon A. Barlow	Gordon Barlow Design	34
#41	Gordon N. McGrew	Wm. Wrigley Jr.	32
#41	James Fraser Stoddart	Northwestern University	32
#43	Zhuang Rui Tan	Synventive Molding Solutions	31
#43	Michael Christopher Jewett	Northwestern University	31
#45	Yi Zhang	Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co.	30
#45	James Edward Colgate	Northwestern University	30
#47	Shu Kuen Chang	3Com	29
#48	Jien-Heh J. Tien	Abbott	27
#48	Joseph Moskal	Northwestern University	27
#48	Bongjun Kim	KAIST	27

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